STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Concord felon accused of breaking into a neighbor's home has been convicted of possession of stolen property.

However, a jury in state Supreme Court, St. George, acquitted Robert Summa of more serious felony charges of burglary and grand larceny stemming from the Aug. 5 incident.

Summa, 45, who recently served time for felony robbery in an unrelated case, faces up to a year behind bars when sentenced March 8 on the misdemeanor conviction, said his lawyer, Robert DePalma.

The jury rendered the verdicts on Thursday.

DePalma said there was no fingerprint or DNA evidence linking Summa to the burglary and theft.

Jurors, however, found Summa guilty of selling the victim's jewelry to a pawn shop the day after the break-in, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

Prosecutors accused Summa of burglarizing a house across the way from his Starbuck Street home and stealing more than $25,000 in jewelry and electronics.

According to DePalma, a neighbor's surveillance video showed a "figure" crossing Starbuck Street from the direction of Summa's home to the victim's residence on the night of the alleged burglary. Twelve minutes later, the figure moved toward Summa's house.

But police and neighbors couldn't identify the person as Summa, and there was no direct evidence linking him to the crime, the lawyer said.

The break-in point was alleged to have been an 18-by20-inch rear basement window.

The defense argued that the 290-pound Summa couldn't have fit through such a small opening, DePalma said.

Summa was arrested after police matched several items of jewelry missing from the home to articles the suspect sold to a Port Richmond shop, said prosecutors.

Had he been convicted of the burglary charge, Summa potentially faced up to 15 years in prison, said DePalma.

Besides a year in jail, he could receive additional time behind bars for violating probation, said prosecutors.

Summa was conditionally released on parole in April of last year after serving a 10-year sentence for an April 2002 robbery, according to online records of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Jurors found Summa guilty of knocking down a woman on Mosel Avenue in Grasmere, under the Staten Island Expressway overpass, and snatching her purse.

Though the victim couldn't identify Summa, the testimony of a Good Samaritan eyewitness sealed his fate.

Prior to the purse-snatching arrest, Summa had already racked up 12 convictions for a variety of offenses, prosecutors said at the time.